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The idea of HTTPS has always been a good one, and most leading businesses implemented it a long time ago.

However, somewhat recently, Google announced that HTTPS is a ranking factor.

Obviously, that got SEOs talking about and debating the subject.

At the time, it was a very small ranking factor, affecting less than 1% of global searches. Even now, it’s not a big factor.

However, security is something that Google takes very seriously, and it’s likely to become more important in the future.

Some SEOs jumped right on it and made the switch.

A 301 redirect is a permanent redirect which passes between 90-99% of link equity (ranking power) to the redirected page. 301 refers to the HTTP status code for this type of redirect. In most instances, the 301 redirect is the best method for implementing redirects on a website.

Images are some of the most important pieces of information on the web, but over the web’s 25-year history, they haven’t been very adaptable at all. Everything about them has been stubbornly fixed: their size, format and crop, all set in stone by a single src.

Sometimes, when running a crawl on a site (or a section of a site), you may find that it isn’t progressing past the first level of URLs. When this happens, only the base domain, or “start URLs” are actually crawled

I think Domain Authority is great metric, but it’s just 1 of many metrics. The changes, which are set to roll out on March 5th, will have an impact on many websites and potentially a big impact. To the common small business owner, this will have little impact on you realistically. It doesn’t change any of your google rankings – it’s really just 1 of many metrics SEOs use – but it’s still exciting due to the fact that potentially big changes in values of websites will happen when this update happens.

It’s easier than you might expect to set up custom shortened URLs for your brand. Though it might be an extra step to run your links through a link shortener, there are many benefits associated with the practice, including tracking and making URLs easy to remember.

Did you do 301 redirection to each and every URL?

Did you downloaded all the URL’s by signing in to your FTP or Cpanel account?

Did you change any content, meta tags or onpage elements?

Login to your google analytics account and export All Pages under site content. Compare the pages and find out if the pages are same for before site migration and after site migration is completed.

How many 404 errors did you receive in your google webmaster accounts. 404 errors will be generated if user’s click the url’s from google search or links present any where on the internet. Try to create an alternative page or redirect that to some other similar page.

You are saying that your traffic dropped from 1000 to 150. Did you checked which keywords ranking dropped, remain constant or improved, what is the landing page and ranking. 150 traffic that you are receiving are for the same pages that used to rank before or are new pages.

Try to find all the landing pages that used to rank for your important keywords, map your keywords to that URL and also try to add informational keyword rich content on the landing page that used to rank before website migration this may help in improving your rankings.

For more detail information read this Web Site Migration Guide - Tips For SEOs

Test if your site has been indexed by searching for its exact URL or domain name with no other words (ex: http://www.yourdomain.com).

Sometimes it can take a week or more for a search engine to update search results. This is because your website is new and doesn’t have any inbound links.

First, create an account on Google webmaster tools. When you register and point Google to your sitemap.xml URL you can request them to re-crawl your URLs. However, there are so many requests that the feature doesn’t always work immediately (especially if you have a new or large site).

If you don’t want to create a Google Webmaster Tools account, try this link to add your url to google: http://www.google.com/addurl/

Google doesn’t add all submitted URLs to their index, and they can’t make predictions or guarantees about when or if submitted URLs will appear in their index. But if your new website is crawled, it usually takes another week or two for it to be pushed out to the index.

Recently I faced the same issue for one of my client and yes! you're right about the Search Console Disavow Tool.
Well.. that helped me! I hope it helps you too.

It is common practice to redirect one URL to another. When doing this, it is critical to observe best practices in order to maintain SEO value.

A redirect is a way to send both users and search engines to a different URL from the one they originally requested. The three most commonly used redirects are 301, 302, and Meta Refresh.

For your better understanding : https://moz.com/learn/seo/redirection

If the Disallowed URLs are linked to externally, or internally from a page that isn't Disallowed, they'll appear in the index with the snippet text you've quoted. If you want to ... Typically, that page will already be populated with parameters the crawler has discovered, though you can specify them manually too.

To your point, if you have an archive page where the content is shown as excerpts, or even just images with the title, then you won’t have any problems and can safely index those pages.

Great question! If you have one post in two different categories, and one is no-index and the other is indexed, then you will not have any problems. The post will be tied to the indexed category, as far as SEO goes.